Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit 835caf4a authored by Mike Hibler's avatar Mike Hibler
Browse files

Urk. The pcap_breakloop trick for getting a thread out of the pcap dispatch

only works for FC4 (not RHL7 or RHL9) because that function only exists in
the libpcap on FC.  Fortunately, I don't think RHL7 and RHL9 exhibit the
problem in the first place.
parent 4947d608
No related branches found
No related tags found
No related merge requests found
......@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ TESTBED_SRCDIR = @top_srcdir@
OBJDIR = ../..
SUBDIR = tools/pcapper
SYSTEM := $(shell uname -s)
RHLVERSION := $(shell cat /etc/redhat-release | sed -e 's/Red Hat Linux release \([0-9]\).*/Linux\1/' | sed -e 's/Fedora Core release \([0-9]\).*/FC\1/')
include $(OBJDIR)/Makeconf
......@@ -38,6 +39,10 @@ LDFLAGS = -static
CFLAGS_FBSD = $(CFLAGS) $(TBCFLAGS)
CFLAGS_FBSD_NE = $(CFLAGS)
CFLAGS_LINUX = $(CFLAGS) -I/usr/include/pcap $(TBCFLAGS)
ifneq (,$(findstring FC, $(RHLVERSION)))
# XXX should be configed
CFLAGS_LINUX += -DHAVE_PCAP_BREAKLOOP
endif
LIBS_FBSD = $(PTHREADLIBS) $(TBLIBS) $(PCAPLIBS)
LIBS_FBSD_NE = $(PTHREADLIBS) $(PCAPLIBS)
......
......@@ -67,6 +67,20 @@
#define MAX_FILES 16
#define MAX_CLIENTS 8
/*
* What a hoot. The Linux (at least Fedora) version of pcapper
* will not timeout in the dispatch routine. It apparently will stay
* in recvfrom() til it gets a packet. So we blast all the pthreads
* out of recvfrom with a signal after setting the flag to force them
* to return from dispatch (pcap_breakloop).
*
* XXX we can only do this if pcap_breakloop exists, which apparently
* it doesn't on older Linux releases.
*/
#if defined(EVENTSYS) && defined(HAVE_PCAP_BREAKLOOP)
#define MUST_WAKEUP_PCAP
#endif
/*
* Program run to determine the control interface.
*/
......@@ -189,7 +203,7 @@ void got_packet(u_char *args, const struct pcap_pkthdr *header,
const u_char *packet);
int getaddr(char *dev, struct in_addr *addr);
#ifdef EVENTSYS
#ifdef __linux__
#ifdef MUST_WAKEUP_PCAP
static void onusr1(int);
static void pthread_WAKEUPDAMIT(void);
#endif
......@@ -366,11 +380,9 @@ void usage(char *progname) {
static void cleanup(int sig)
{
killme = 1;
#ifdef EVENTSYS
#ifdef __linux__
#ifdef MUST_WAKEUP_PCAP
pthread_WAKEUPDAMIT();
#endif
#endif
}
/*
......@@ -962,15 +974,13 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) {
action.sa_handler = cleanup;
sigaction(SIGTERM, &action, NULL);
sigaction(SIGINT, &action, NULL);
#ifdef EVENTSYS
#ifdef __linux__
#ifdef MUST_WAKEUP_PCAP
/*
* XXX serious hack. Need to catch SIGUSR1 in all threads
* so they can be signal()ed out of libpcap.
*/
action.sa_handler = onusr1;
sigaction(SIGUSR1, &action, NULL);
#endif
#endif
}
......@@ -1739,7 +1749,7 @@ int getaddr(char *dev, struct in_addr *addr) {
* out of recvfrom with a signal after setting the flag to force them
* to return from dispatch (pcap_breakloop).
*/
#ifdef __linux__
#ifdef MUST_WAKEUP_PCAP
static void
onusr1(int sig)
{
......@@ -1857,7 +1867,7 @@ callback(event_handle_t handle,
pthread_self(), reload);
fflush(stderr);
#ifdef __linux__
#ifdef MUST_WAKEUP_PCAP
pthread_WAKEUPDAMIT();
#endif
while (reload)
......
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment